The Pagan Middle Ages
Evidence for the survival of paganism in the medieval world.

Paganism in Arthurian Romance (paperback edition)
Investigation of literary and archaeological evidence in search of pagan sources for the Arthurian legend.

Pain and Suffering in Medieval Theology
Examines the works of highly influential medieval theologians to show how they dealt with the questions of human pain and suffering.

The Pakenham Cartulary for the Manor of Ixworth Thorpe, Suffolk, c.1250-c.1320
Series: Suffolk Charters
This edition represents a remarkable survival of the detail by which a member of the armoured class of late thirteenth-century Suffolk chose to provide for one of his younger sons.

Palladius on Husbandrie
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Papal Ceremonial at Rome in the Twelfth Century
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society Subsidia
An examination of the papal adventus ceremony, deriving from the ritual reception performed for the ruler in antiquity, and the changes it underwent during the century.

Papal Decretals relating to the Diocese of Lincoln in the 12th Century
Series: Publications of the Lincoln Record Society

The Papers of Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey: volume IV, 1596-1602
Series: Norfolk Record Society

The Papers of Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey

The Papers of the Elland Society, 1769-1828
Series: Church of England Record Society
Papers from an important eighteenth-century religious society provide new insights into the Evangelical tradition in the Church of England.

Paris and Vienne translated from the French and printed by William Caxton
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Parker Chronicle and Laws Corpus Christi College, Cambridge MS 173
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

The Parlement of the Thre Ages
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Parliament at Work
The political, social and economic changes which overtook England in the early seventeenth century forced Parliament to adapt from a medieval institution into one with authority over all facets of society; studies focus on particular cases.

The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275-1504, on CD-Rom
Series: Scholarly Digital Editions
Eight million words of text, translation and introductions, recording the English Parliaments from Edward I to Henry VII

The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275-1504, on CD-rom
Series: Scholarly Digital Editions
Eight million words of text, translation and introductions, recording the English Parliaments from Edward I to Henry VII.

The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275-1504: internet subscription
Series: Scholarly Digital Editions

The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275-1504 [16 volume set]
Major edition of all the surviving medieval Rolls of Parliament: an invaluable source for scholars.

The Parliamentary Agents
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History

Parliamentary Army Chaplains, 1642-51
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History

Parliamentary Surveys of the Bishopric of Durham. Volume I
Series: Publications of the Surtees Society

Parliamentary Surveys of the Bishopric of Durham. Volume II
Series: Publications of the Surtees Society

Parry to Finzi: Twenty English Song-Composers (paperback edition)
The works of twenty composers from the golden age of English romantic song, major figures - Parry, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Quilter, Ireland, Gurney, Warlock and Finzi - studied alongside the lesser-known.

Particular Friends
Series: First Person Singular
Intriguing insight into the minds of two exceptional men whose contribution to our understanding of 17th-century England is incalculable. SPECTATOR

Particular Friends Pepys Eve [pb] - Out of print

Partnerships in Healthcare
Articles suggesting a new approach to working relationships in the health care system.

Parzival
Series: Arthurian Studies
Wolfram's Parzival continues to inspire and influence, in modern times works as diverse as Wagner's Parsifal and Lohengrin, Franz Kafka's The Castle, Terry Gilliam's film The Fisher King, and Umberto Eco's Baudolino.

Pastimes and Politics
Series: Eastern African Studies
In post-abolition Zanzibar, ex-slaves re-created their individual and collective class, gender and ethnic identities as they struggled for social and economic empowerment. This study opens up areas of enquiry regarding the interplay of gender, culture, and social change in urban Zanzibar.

Pastimes and Politics (paperback edition)
Series: Eastern African Studies
In post-abolition Zanzibar, ex-slaves re-created their individual and collective class, gender and ethnic identities as they struggled for social and economic empowerment. This study opens up areas of enquiry regarding the interplay of gender, culture, and social change in urban Zanzibar.

The Paston Women: Selected Letters
Series: Library of Medieval Women
The Paston letters viewed in the context of medieval women's writing and medieval letter writing.

The Pastons
Series: First Person Singular
Attractive selection conveys well their recurrent concerns with land, money, civil violence, flirtation, marriage, and the purchase of ginger and lace. MEDIUM AEVUMVivid first-hand accounts of life in England at the time of the Wars of the Roses, presented in their historical context. Essential reading on the English middle ages.

Pastons [pb] - Out of print

The 'Pastor-Bobo' in the Spanish Theatre before the Time of Lope de Vega
Series: Monografías A

Pastoral Care in Late Anglo-Saxon England
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
The role of pastoral care reconsidered in the context of major changes within the Anglo-Saxon church.

The Pastoral Care of Women in Late Medieval England
Series: Gender in the Middle Ages
A close examination of religious texts illuminates the way in which parish priests dealt with their female parishioners in the middle ages.

Pastoral Democracy (paperback edition)
Series: Classics in African Anthropology
This series of Classics in African Anthropology is primarily drawn from a distinct family of texts which dominated the academic analysis of society in mid-20th century Africa. The texts are significant yet often neglected, but have stood the test of time, according to the editors.

Pastors and Visionaries

Path for Freedom The Liberal Project of the Swabian School in Württemberg, 1806-1848
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Describes the activities of writers working for liberalism in 19th-century Württemberg.

Pathan Unarmed
The Khudai Khidmatgar movement arose in the inter-war years on the North West Frontier. This is an account of rank and file members of the Khudai Khidmatgar, describing why they joined, what they did, and how they perceived the ethics and aims of the movement.

Pathan Unarmed (paperback edition)
Series: World Anthropology
The Khudai Khidmatgar movement arose in the inter-war years on the North West Frontier. This is an account of rank and file members of the Khudai Khidmatgar, describing why they joined, what they did, and how they perceived the ethics and aims of the movement.

Paths in the Rain Forests (paperback edition)

Paths of Accommodation
Series: Western African Studies
Between 1880 and 1920, Muslim Sufi orders became pillars of the colonial regimes and economies of Senegal and Mauritania. This work examines the ways in which the leaders of the orders negotiated relations with the Federation of French West Africa, to preserve autonomy within the realms.

Paths of Accommodation (paperback edition)
Series: Western African Studies
Between 1880 and 1920, Muslim Sufi orders became pillars of the colonial regimes and economies of Senegal and Mauritania. This work examines the ways in which the leaders of the orders negotiated relations with the Federation of French West Africa, to preserve autonomy within the realms.

Pathways of Change in Africa
Discussions of mixed farming often assume that these systems represent a natural progression towards an ideal state. This text argues that these evolutionary views can be questioned because it fails to recognise the range of technology and the change that occurs in agricultural systems.

Pathways of Change in Africa (paperback edition)
Discussions of mixed farming often assume that these systems represent a natural progression towards an ideal state. This text argues that these evolutionary views can be questioned because it fails to recognise the range of technology and the change that occurs in agricultural systems.

Patrick Duncan (paperback edition)
Born son of a Governor-General of South Africa, Patrick Duncan rejected the attitudes of his privileged background to follow the Gandhian way of passive reistance, even to jail. This biography traces the life and times of Duncan and the changes and struggles in late-20th century South Africa.

A Patron and a Playwright in Renaissance Spain
Series: Monografías A

Patterns of Ambivalence
Series: Studies in English and American Literature and Culture
A study drawing from a wide range of disciplines - social history, psychoanalytic theory, and feminist philosophy as well as literary criticism - to construct the paradoxical world of Smith and her characters.

Patterns of Philanthropy
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
A study of the debate over the control of civi charities during the era of municipal reform.

Paul Klee, Poet/Painter
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
First scholarly monograph devoted to Klee's poetry illuminates the reciprocity of poetry and painting in Klee's creative world and in early modernism.

The Pauline Epistles (paperback edition)
Series: Early English Text Society Extra Series

Peace through Law
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History
Lucid and meticulous... a significant contribution to the study both of British foreign policy and the League of Nations. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW Study of British reaction to the League of Nations' promotion of compulsory jurisdiction of the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague.

Peace without Profit (paperback edition)
Series: African Issues
This text looks at the economic problems facing post-civil war Mozambique. It argues that following the dictates of the IMF/World Bank has prevented the country from rebuilding itself, and asks whether aid can ameliorate the distortions imposed by these organizations.

Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain facsimile of British Museum MS. Cotton Nero A.x, with introduction by I Gollancz
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Peasant Consciousness and Guerrilla War in Zimbabwe (paperback edition)

Peasants and Production in the Medieval North-East
Series: Regions and Regionalism in History
Evidence from unused sources sheds much light on the peasant economy of the later middle ages.

Peddling My Wares
Series: Studies in Scandinavian Literature and Culture
Critically acclaimed novel from one of Sweden's most prominent 20th-century writers.

Pedestrian Photographs
A rich collection of photographs representing contemporary New Yorkers in their urban environment.

Pelagius: Life and Letters
`An important contribution to studies of Pelagius and the social and religious world of the late fourth and early fifth-century West'.THEOLOGICAL STUDIES (US)

Pentatonicism from the Eighteenth Century to Debussy
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
A generously illustrated examination of pentatonic ("black-key scale") techniques in the context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western art-music.

People & Places in N Europe - Out of print

People are Not the Same (paperback edition)
Series: Social History of Africa
This text draws upon an extensive collection of life histories to elaborate the perspectives of patients themselves who suffer from leprosy in Mali. It describes the transformation of leper identities with changes in medical and social responses to the disease.

People on the Edge in the Horn (paperback edition)
This study questions the degree of impact Eritreans displaced by the war with Ethiopia have had on the Gedaref region of the Sudan. Was land degradation on and around the scheme due to humans and their livestock? The author provides evidence to question many assumptions on this matter.

Catalogue of the Pepys Library set at Magdalene College, Cambridge

The Pepysian Gospel Harmony (paperback edition)
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Perception and Action in Medieval Europe
Study of the changing nature of the perception of an action and the action itself, and how thought-processes altered radically in the middle ages.

Perceval (paperback edition)
Series: Arthurian Studies

Perceval
The original version of one of the greatest and most potent of medieval legends.

The Percussionist's Art
An engaging, practical, sometimes poetic account of the new world of percussion music--from the 1930s (Varese, Cage) to today--by one of its leading practitioners.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Series: Essays and Studies
New essays on Shelley's achievements and distinctive qualities as a writer covering the whole range of his work.

Perfil del Aire
Series: Textos B

The Performance of Middle English Culture
First detailed examination of theatricality in Chaucer and in Middle English literature and culture as a whole.

Performing Definitions Two Genres of Insult in Old Norse Literature
Series: Studies in Scandinavian Literature and Culture
A study of "ethnic poetics" in old Norse literature, Swenson's book treats the boast-insult debate tradition, a hotly debated topic in recent years.

Performing Medieval Narrative
Broad and wide-ranging survey of and investigation into the important question of whether medieval narrative was designed for performance.

The Persistence of Human Passions: Manuel Mujica Láinez's Satirical Neo-Modernism
Series: Monografías A

The Personal Rule of Charles II, 1681-85
Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
The wider repercussions and consequences of Charles II's personal rule are discussed, with special reference to the fledgling Tory and Whig parties.

Personification in Piers Plowman
Series: Piers Plowman Studies

Perspectives on Early Modern and Modern Intellectual History
A collection of essays bringing together several disciplines and historical periods focusing on Renaissance Humanism, Histories of Art, and Rhetorics, Philosophies, and Histories.

Peter Levins Manipulus Vocabulorum (paperback edition)
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Petrarch and Garcilaso
Series: Monografías A

Petrarquismo Peruano: Diego Dávalos y Figueroa y la poesía de la 'Miscelánea Austral'
Series: Monografías A

Pfitzner's Palestrina
Series: Other Operas
Investigation of unjustly neglected opera.

Pfitzner's Palestrina (paperback edition)
Series: Other Operas
Investigation of unjustly neglected opera.

Philip the Bold
A biography of Philip and a study of the emergence of the Burgundian state under his aegis in the years 1384-1404, paying particular attention to his crucial aquisition of Flanders. There is comprehensive analysis of how Philip's government worked.

Philip the Good
Philip, who ruled from 1419 to 1467, was one of the most powerful and influential rulers of the fifteenth century. Forced into an alliance with the English, he soon found that he held the balance of power between England and France - reflected in the final crucial phase of the Hundred Years War.

Philippe de Vigneulles and the Art of Prose Translation
Series: Gallica
The cultural agenda of Philippe de Vigneulles, translator of the Lorraine epic cycle into Middle French prose.

The Philosopher's Child
A collection of essays examining how philosophers in the Western tradition have viewed and written about children through the ages.

The Philosophical Canon in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Essays on philosophy and intellectual history, focusing in particular on John Locke.

Philosophy and the Darwinian Legacy
Has exclusion of Darwin's views on evolution distorted 20c philosophy? Cunningham suggests a reappraisal.

Philosophy, Religion and Science in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century
Series: Library of the History of Ideas
Studies reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of science, philosophy and religion in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The Phonetic Writings of Robert Robinson
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Picturing Performance
A systematic study of the visual arts as potential sources of historical documentation for the performing arts - music, drama and dance; also guidance on sources of images for the performing arts.

Pierce the Ploughman's Crede
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Pierre Reverdy
Series: Research Bibliographies and Checklists

The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive: 3. Oxford, Oriel College, MS 79 (O) on CD-Rom [individual use]
Series: SEENET

The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive: 3. Oxford, Oriel College, MS 79 (O) on CD-Rom [institutional use] (Institutional Licence)
Series: SEENET

The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive: 4. Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Laud misc. 581 (SC 987) on CD-Rom [institutional use] (Institutional Licence)
Series: SEENET

The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive: 4. Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Laud misc. 581 (SC 987) on CD-Rom [individual use]
Series: SEENET

The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive: 5. London, British Library, MS Additional 35287 (M) [individual use] (Individual Licence)
Series: SEENET
The editors ... call this a `documentary edition.' This is too humble. For Piers Plowman studies, documentation and editing are being transformed, and Langland's work is bound to regain more of its authentic volatile life. Stephen Shepherd, YLS 14 (2000): 207.


The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive: 5. London, British Library, MS Additional 35287 (M) [institutional use] (Institutional Licence)
Series: SEENET

The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive: 6. San Marino, Huntington Library MS 128 (Hm and Hm2)
Series: SEENET
The editors ... call this a `documentary edition.' This is too humble. For Piers Plowman studies, documentation and editing are being transformed, and Langland's work is bound to regain more of its authentic volatile life. Stephen Shepherd, YLS 14 (2000): 207.


The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive: 6. San Marino, Huntington Library MS 128 (Hm and Hm2) (Institutional Licence)
Series: SEENET

The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive 7: London, British Library, MS Lansdowne 398 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson Poetry 38 (S.C. 15563) (R)
Series: SEENET

The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive 7: London, British Library, MS Lansdowne 398 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson Poetry 38 (R) (Institutional Licence)
Series: SEENET

Piers Plowman
Series: Piers Plowman Studies

Piers Plowman
Facsimile with scholarly research of important version of Piers Plowman.

Pietism in Petticoats and Other Comedies
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
First English translation of Gottsched's five original comedies.

Piety, Fraternity and Power
Detailed investigation of the religious gild, showing its importance to all aspects of medieval life.

The Pilgrim City
St Augustine on the human condition, justice, the State, slavery, private property and war: essential sourcebook for historians of late classical and medieval thought.

Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges
Series: Medieval Finds from Excavations in London
An exceptional reference work to pilgrim and secular badges of the middle ages.

Pilgrimage Explored
The history and underlying ideology of pilgrimage examined, from prehistory to the middle ages.

Pilgrimage in Medieval English Literature, 700-1500
The meaning of pilgrimage and its development over 800 years, reflected in contemporary writings.

The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man [ES 77, 83, 92]
Series: Early English Text Society Extra Series

The Pilgrimage of the Lyfe of the Manhode vol I
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

The Pilgrimage of the Lyfe of the Manhode vol II
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Pilgrimage to Images in the Fifteenth Century
A case study of the meaning and purpose of pilgrimage, based on the image of the 'scarred Virgin', Our Lady of Czestochowa.

Pilgrimage to Rome in the Middle Ages (paperback edition)
Series: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
Year 2000 is a Jubilee year for the Catholic church and very large numbers are expected to make the pilgrimage to Rome.

Pilgrimages (paperback edition)
The first book to give an account of the major pilgrimage traditions of all the great religions of the world.

Pio Baroja's 'Memorias de un Hombre de Acción' and the Ironic Mode
Series: Monografías A

Pioneers in Medicine and Their Impact on Tuberculosis
Pioneers in Medicine and Their Impact on Tuberculosis tells the stories of six individuals (Laennec, Koch, Biggs, von Pirquet, Frost, and Waksman), each of whom made significant contributions to their own respective medical fields, as well as to the overall battle to conquer tuberculosis.

Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia
Series: Eastern African Studies
Following Ethiopia's political independence, a stream of Ethiopians was sent around the world to study various countries. They returned home and used what they had learnt to lay the foundations of a new literary and political philosophy. This study tells the story of these intellectuals.

Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia (paperback edition)
Series: Eastern African Studies
Following Ethiopia's political independence, a stream of Ethiopians was sent around the world to study various countries. They returned home and used what they had learnt to lay the foundations of a new literary and political philosophy. This study tells the story of these intellectuals.

The Place of Argument
Series: Monografías A
Essays in honour of Nicholas Round, one of the most significant figures of contemporary Hispanism.

The Place of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England
Series: Pubns Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies
The cross pervaded the whole of Anglo-Saxon culture, in art, in sculpture, in religion, in medicine. These new essays explore its importance and significance.

The Place of War in English History, 1066-1214
Series: Warfare in History
A leading medievalist of his generation studies Anglo-Norman practice in the raising and maintaining of armed forces, and its effect on the government and economy.

The Placenta from Implantation to Trophoblastic Disease:
Series: Trophoblast Research

Placental Molecules in Hemodynamics, Transport and Cellular Regulation
Series: Trophoblast Research

Placental Signals Autocrine and Paracine Control of Pregnancy
Series: Trophoblast Research
Papers focus on regulative signaling to, from and within the placenta.

Plant Names of Medieval England
` Compiled with great care, cautious in its claims and rich with suggestions for further scholarship; will be of great value to lexicographers and all students of medieval medicine and botany.' PAULINE THOMPSON, NOTES AND QUERIES

Plato's Erotic Thought
Series: Rochester Studies in Philosophy
An attempt, by a close reading of three Platonic dialogues, the Symposium, Lysis, and the Phaedrus, to discover the true nature of the object of Eros and especially to understand the mystery of its birth.

Playing the King: Lope de Vega and the Limits of Conformity
Series: Monografías A
A reappraisal of Lope's literary career, bringing out the complexities of his dramatic texts.

Playing the Past
The history plays of the late 16th century are shown as neither a Shakespearean nor an Elizabethan invention, but as a development of medieval drama.

The Plays of George Chapman

The Plays of Henry Medwall
Series: Tudor Interludes

The Plays of John Heywood
Series: Tudor Interludes
The series is performing an important service by providing fully annotated editions of Tudor humanists and playwrights in the original Tudor English, with glossaries and listing of textual variants and doubtful readings. COMPARATIVE DRAMA

The Plays of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón
Series: Monografías A
Alarcón defends the comedia against criticsm through his definition of illusion as a moral art - a stance evident in his plays.

African Theatre (paperback edition)
Series: African Theatre
African playwrights remain aware of the political dimension of their work. This volume in the African Theatre series examines, for example, a theatrical collaboration inspired by the infamous execution of Ken Saro Wiwa and raises issues around the power and politics of language in a Mauritian version of the Tempest .

A Pleasing Sinne
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
Studies of the representation and understanding of drink and conviviality in diverse social contexts.

The Pleasure of Modernist Music
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
An exploration of the meaning of "modernist" music.

Plundering Africa's Past (paperback edition)
This text examines why the African past, namely its art and antiquities, is disappearing at a rate perhaps unmatched in any other part of the world. Each essay looks at the international network of looting and trafficking, and the conclusion discusses specific steps that could halt the process.

Pluralizing Ethnography
Series: School of American Research Advanced Seminar

Pluralizing Ethnography (paperback edition)
Series: School of American Research Advanced Seminar

The Poems of Alexander Scott (paperback edition)
Series: Early English Text Society Extra Series

The Poems of Walter Kennedy
Series: Scottish Text Society Fifth Series
First modern edition of the complete works of Walter Kennedy, the late medieval Scottish poet.

Poems by Sir John Salusbury and Robert Chester
Series: Early English Text Society Extra Series

The Poems of William of Shoreham (paperback edition)
Series: Early English Text Society Extra Series

Poesia moral (Polimnia)
Series: Textos B
Critical edition of the seventeenth-century Spanish poet's moral poetry: the Polimnia group of poems from his Poesíía moral.

Poesía Paisajística Española 1940-1970
Series: Monografías A

Poesía popular durante la Guerra de la Independencia española 1808-1814
Series: Research Bibliographies and Checklists

The Poet as Provocateur
Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective
Analyzes the heated critical debate on Heine from his own lifetime to the present.

The Poet as Thinker
Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective
Survey of reception of German poet Hölderlin in French criticism and literature, with particular attention to Heidegger and his followers.

Poetas de la palabra hablada
Series: Monografías A
The use of colloquial language in the works of contemporaryLatin-American poets.

The Poetic Debussy
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
The texts of all of Debussy's songs, together with translation and notes essential for an understanding of his creative impulse.

The Poetic Debussy (paperback edition)
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Texts and translation of all Debussy's songs with valuable notes.

Poetic Realism in Scandinavia and Central Europe 1820-1895
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
'Poetic Realism' defined, and its significant 19th-century Scandinavian and European practitioners discussed.

Una Poética de la Oscuridad
Series: Monografías A
An account of the critical reception of Góóngora's Soledad primerain the 17c.

The Poetics of Reading
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Situates the act of critical reading in the context of poetic aesthetics.

Poetry and Truth in the Spanish Works of Fray Luis de León
Series: Monografías A
A study of the mentality of the 16c Spanish writer, Fray Luis de León.

Poetry and Politics
Series: Essays and Studies
The relationship between poetry and politics from the Renaissance to the present day examined.

Poetry, Knowledge and Community in Late Medieval France
Series: Gallica
The role of poetry in the transmission and shaping of knowledge in late medieval France.

The Poetry of Alfonso X
Series: Research Bibliographies and Checklists

The Poetry of Francisco de Aldana
Series: Monografías A

The Poetry of Luis Cernuda
Series: Monografías A
A study of the work of the Spanish poet Luis Cernuda (1902-1963).

The Poetry of Protest under Franco
Series: Monografías A

The Poetry of Rafael Alberti
Series: Monografías A

The Poetry of Salvador Espriu
Series: Monografías A
The first book-length study in English of the poetry of Salvador Espriu [1913-85].

Poets and Prophets

Poison and Medicine (paperback edition)
Series: Social History of Africa
A study of links between interethnic conflict and processes of reconciliation in the ethnically charged setting of Kano, northern Nigeria. It shows how Igbos renegotiated a position for themselves in the new political environment of Kano following the Nigerian Civil War of 1967-70.

Politics of Structural Adjustment in Nigeria (paperback edition)

Polio
The story of polio in the words of its victims, doctors, and research scientists concerned with the means of eradicating it.

Polio (paperback edition)

The Polish Formalist School and Russian Formalism
Series: Rochester Studies in Central Europe
A comparison of two schools of literary criticism, showing how the Polish Formalist School modified and transcended the original ideas of Russian Formalism.

The Polish Singers Alliance of America 1888-1998
Series: Rochester Studies in Central Europe
A history of an American ethnic cultural organization and its close ties to the cause of Polish sovereignty.

Political Change and Human Emancipation in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Challenges traditional views of Kleist by situating his work in relation to the political and philosophical debates of his age.

Political Dimensions of Arthur Schnitzler's Late Fiction
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Schnitzler's late work viewed as an argument for change through political reform.

A Political History of The Gambia, 1816-1994
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
The only complete study of modern Gambian politics from the establishment of British rule to the overthrow of the Jawara government.

A Political History of The Gambia, 1816-1994 (paperback edition)
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
The only complete study of modern Gambian politics from the establishment of British rule to the overthrow of the Jawara government.

Political, Religious and Love Poems from Lambeth MS. 306 and other sources
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Political Power in Pre-colonial Buganda (paperback edition)
Series: Eastern African Studies
Buganda was one of the most favoured of East Africa's inter-lacustrine kingdoms. Blessed with fertile and well-watered soil, it became a major regional power by the mid-19th century. This study tells the story of its society, economy and culture.

Political Power in Pre-colonial Buganda
Series: Eastern African Studies
Buganda was one of the most favoured of East Africa's inter-lacustrine kingdoms. Blessed with fertile and well-watered soil, it became a major regional power by the mid-19th century. This study tells the story of its society, economy and culture.

Politics and Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
New essays on the influence of politics on 20c. German culture, not only during the Nazi and Cold War eras but in periods when the effects are less obvious.

Politics and the Political Imagination in Later Stuart Britain
New essays focussing on the problems of politics, women, and print culture in seventeenth-century Britain.

Politics, Ideology and the Law in Early Modern Europe
Essays exploring political life and thought during the ancien régimein France.

Politics in German Literature
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
New readings of a variety of works in German literature, taking as a theme the conflict between the aims of politics and literature.

Politics in South Africa (paperback edition)
In this text, Tom Lodge offers a concise study of the kinds of political patterns that have emerged in South Africa under the presidencies of Mandela and Mbeki. The author also examines land reform, corruption and the outcome of the Truth and Reconciliation Council.

The Politics of Frenchness in Colonial Algeria, 1930-1954
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
An examination of French citizenship and cultural identity in Algeria during the last quarter-century of colonial rule.

Politics of Patronage in Africa (paperback edition)
This is a general survey of the influence of political factors (especially patronage) on economic performance throughout sub-Saharan Africa, with case studies drawn from Ghana, Zambia and Uganda. It is a comparative study of the difficulties in developing a private enterprise economy.

The Politics of Pearl
Close analysis of the poem reveals extensive allusion to contemporary social, religious and political events.

The Politics of Piety
Series: Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe
A history of the role played by the Franciscans during the contentious Wars of Religion [1562-1594].

The Politics of Stability
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History
Tudor London, nominally under the control of the crown, was in reality ruled by its aldermen, who established firm civic government founded on the stabilising influence of the elitist merchant oligarchy.

The Politics of Vaccination
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
A detailed examination of the political forces and events that shaped smallpox vaccination policy in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland during the nineteenth century.

Politics of Transition in Africa (paperback edition)
Series: ROAPE African Readers
Part of a series of studies that examine political issues confronting African peoples, societies and states, this text explores: theories of the state, the transition to democracy and economic development.

The Pontifical of Magdalen College
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society

Poor are Not Us
This collection concerning East African pastoralists rejects the premise of pastoral egalatarianism and poses questions about the gradual creep of poverty, changing patterns of wealth and accumulation, the impact of diminishing resources on pastoral communities, and the impact of external values.

Poor are Not Us (paperback edition)
Series: Eastern African Studies
This collection concerning East African pastoralists rejects the premise of pastoral egalatarianism and poses questions about the gradual creep of poverty, changing patterns of wealth and accumulation, the impact of diminishing resources on pastoral communities, ans the impact of external values.

Poor Relief in Elizabethan Ipswich
Series: Suffolk Records Society
Records of Tooley benefaction and municipal poorhouse, together with assessments and payment of relief, c.1550-1600.

Popular Conservatism in Imperial London, 1868-1906
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
First detailed investigation into the popular dimensions of late-Victorian London Conservatism.

Popular Medicine in 13th-Century England

Port Books of Boston, 1601-1640
Series: Publications of the Lincoln Record Society
Evidence for the foreign trade of Boston, and discussion of port books, records from which duty owed was assessed.

The Portiforium o Saint Wulstan: Volume 1
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society

The Portiforium of Saint Wulstan Volume 2
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society

Portrait of Percy Grainger
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
A unique treatment of the key influences on the life of this important Australian composer, consisting of oral histories by people who knew Grainger, as well as reflections from his own writings.

Portugal 1715-1808
Series: Monografías A

Portugal: A Traveller's History
An historical guide to Portugal which both describes and accounts for what the visitor might see and experience in this often-spellbinding country.

Post-Communist Transition:
Series: Rochester Studies in Central Europe
An examination, by Poland's former Minister of Finance, of the underlying reasons why the transition from state-controlled to free market economies has not been as smooth as envisaged by the relevant governments and international organizations.

Post-War Mothers
Women's experience of childbirth in the mid-twentieth century, revealed in their own words.

Postcolonial Fictions in the 'Roman de Perceforest'
Series: Gallica
The Roman de Perceforestexplores issues of ethnic and cultural conflict and fusion, identity and hybridity in an imaginary pre-Arthurian Britain, ruled by a dynasty established by Alexander the Great.

Postcolonial Theory and Criticism
Series: Essays and Studies
Articles on the historical, social and political realities of postcolonialism as expressed in contemporary writing.

El Postrer Duelo de España
Series: Textos B

Potent Brews
Series: Eastern African Studies
This work studies the political ecology of a major kingdom in Africa. It covers issues of state capacity, ideology and governmental legitimacy as crucial for the analysis of the political ecology of a large state, focusing on the interplay between levels of environmental activity.

Potent Brews (paperback edition)
Series: Eastern African Studies
This is a general history of alcohol and drinking in East Africa. It contributes to an emerging field of African social history in distinctive ways. Oral materials from three case study areas in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania are woven in with archival and newspaper sources.

The Potted Tree
Essays on Venetian art, 15-18c.

Power and Border Lordship in Medieval France
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
The emergence of the northern French county of the Perche, and the rise of the Rotrou family from obscure origins to princely power, 11-13c.

Power and the Praise Poem (paperback edition)
Series: Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies

The Power of African Cultures
An analysis of the ties between culture and every aspect of African life, using Africa's past to explain present situations.

The Power of African Cultures (paperback edition)
An analysis of the ties between culture and every aspect of African life, using Africa's past to explain present situations.

Power of Babel (paperback edition)
Tackling the contentious question of African languages versus European languages, this study argues that the dominance of the incoming languages is due to two factors: originally the societies were not expansionist enough, and later the peoples of Africa failed to be nationalist enough.

Power Relations in Nigeria
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Study of slavery and its legacy in Nigeria from 19c through colonialism to independence and after.

La Práctica escénica cortesana: de la época del Emperador a la de Felipe III
Series: Monografías A
A study of the relationship betwen court festivity and theatre in 16c Spain.

The Practice of Penance, 900-1050
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
Penitential practice in the Holy Roman Empire 900-1050, examined through records in church law, the liturgy, monastic and other sources.

El Prado de Valencia
Series: Textos B

Pragmatic Literacy, East and West, 1200-1330
Studies of the uses of literacy for the exercise of political and economic power, in Latin Christendom and the wider world.

The Praise of Folie by Sir Thomas Chaloner
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

Pre-Conquest Bounds Devon - Out of print

A Pre Conquest English Prayer-Book
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society

Preachers, Peasants and Politics in South East Africa, 1835-1880
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History

The Premonstratensian Order in Late Medieval England
Series: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
Detailed study of monastic life of the English white canons, based on 15c visitation records.

Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Africa
The outflow of archaeological or artistic work from Africa, together with the ways of exhibiting African treasures outside Africa, are emerging as serious issues both in political and ethical terms. This book discusses the question: 'How should Africa's cultural heritage be preserved?'

Presidential Disability

Prestige, Authority and Power in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts
Series: York Manuscripts Conference
A range of manuscripts and texts from various social contexts studied for what they reveal of that social background.

Prévost
Series: Research Bibliographies and Checklists

Pride of Men (paperback edition)
Series: Social History of Africa
Presents a systematic, comprehensive and region-wide study of central African ironworkers as a distinct group. Integrating material on culure and social history, Kriger provides detailed descriptions of the labour process and the items that the smiths produced.

Priest Konrad's Song of Roland
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
English text of 11c German translation of the French Chanson de Roland.

Princes of the Trenches
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Examination of German literature of the First World War, its themes and underlying vision, and examination of how it differs from the English view of the Great War.

The Printed Maps of Lincolnshire, 1576-1900: A Carto-Bibliography with an Appendix on Road-Books, 1675-1900 (paperback edition)
Series: Publications of the Lincoln Record Society
Complete record of all the maps of Lincolnshire from 1576 to 1900, with full description and bibliographical notes for each entry.

The Prior of the Knights Hospitaller in Late Medieval England
The full significance and influence of the part played by the Prior of the Knights Hospitaller in the middle ages is brought out here in a wide-ranging survey.

Private Ambition and Political Alliances in Louis XIV's Government
Series: Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe
An exploration of the personal and professional networks of political power during the reign of Louis XIV, focusing on the influence of his minister Louis Phelypeaux de Pontchartrain.

The Private Journals of the Long Parliament, vol. 1
Series: Yale Proceedings in Parliament

The Private Journals of the Long Parliament, volume 2
Series: Yale Proceedings in Parliament

The Private Journals of the Long Parliament volume 3
Series: Yale Proceedings in Parliament

Probate Inventories of Lincoln Citizens, 1661-1714
Series: Publications of the Lincoln Record Society
Probate inventories (drawn up to protect the heirs to an estate and to facilitate the distribution of bequests) selected from mainly urban parishes yield detail on a wide range of occupations.

The Problem of Ireland in Tudor Foreign Policy
Examination of the influence of Irish affairs on English foreign policy under the Tudors.

The Problem of Labour in Fourteenth-Century England
Attitudes towards `labour', in the wake of the Black Death, shown to range from early protest literature to repressive authoritarianism.

The Problem of Woman in Late-Medieval Hispanic Literature
Series: Monografías A
This book argues that the problem of gender identity is vital to the large corpus of medieval Hispanic texts that discuss the nature of women.

Proceedings in Parliament 1625, volume 1
Series: Yale Proceedings in Parliament

Proceedings in Parliament 1626, volume 1: House of Lords
Series: Yale Proceedings in Parliament

Proceedings in Parliament 1626, volume 2: House of Commons
Series: Yale Proceedings in Parliament

Proceedings in Parliament 1626, Volume 3: Appendixes and Indices
Series: Yale Proceedings in Parliament

Proceedings in Parliament 1626, Volume 4: Appendixes and Indexes
Series: Yale Proceedings in Parliament

Commons Debates 1628, Volume 1: Introduction and Reference Materials
Series: Yale Proceedings in Parliament

Commons Debates 1628, volume 2: 17/3-19/4
Series: Yale Proceedings in Parliament

Commons Debates 1628 volume 3: 21/4-27/5
Series: Yale Proceedings in Parliament

Commons Debates 1628, volume 4: 28/5-26/6
Series: Yale Proceedings in Parliament

Proceedings in Parliament 1628, Volume 5: Lords Proceedings
Series: Yale Proceedings in Parliament

Proceedings in Parliament 1628, Volume 6: Appendixes and Indexes
Series: Yale Proceedings in Parliament

Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament [Set]
Series: Proceedings of the English Parliament

Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament
Series: Proceedings of the English Parliament
The volumes of Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament present the records of proceedings in the House of Commons (5 volumes) and the House of Lords (3 volumes) beginning in November 1640. Volume 1 of the proceedings in the House of Commons is the first of two volumes leading up to the beginning of the impeachment trial of the Earl of Strafford for High Treason.

Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament
Series: Proceedings of the English Parliament
The volumes of Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament present the records of proceedings in the House of Commons (5 volumes) and the House of Lords (3 volumes) beginning in November 1640. Volume 2 of the House of Commons debates continues the records of debates begun in Volume 1 that lead to the beginning of the impeachment trial of the Earl of Strafford for High Treason.

Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament
Series: Proceedings of the English Parliament
The official record of the English Parliament as well as personal diaries from members recording the events of the Earl of Strafford's trial and the treaty with Scotland.

Proceedings of the Long Parliament, Volume 4
Series: Proceedings of the English Parliament
Further debates on the continuation of the parliament, as well as the end of the impeachment of Lord Strafford, an attempt to rescue him, and his execution.

Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament
Series: Proceedings of the English Parliament
Volume 5 of Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament covers the period from 7 June through 17 July 1641, during which time the Act of Pacification with Scotland was finalized; this is the penultimate volume of text in the edition.

Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament
Series: Proceedings of the English Parliament
This volume reflects again the superb organization of the parliamentary body that met during these years.

Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament
Series: Proceedings of the English Parliament
This final volume of the edition includes the Appendix materials (Lists of Members by family name and constituency, Lists of Officials by family name and office, Lists of Committees, Table of Bills, and Chronological Table of Speeches) and the comprehensive Index.

Proceedings of the Privy Council of Queen Elizabeth I, 1582-83
Important edition of central government records for Elizabeth I makes vital information available to historians.

A Profane Wit
A biography of the poet and libertine the Earl of Rochester.

Project Concerning New Symbols for Music
Series: Classic Texts in Music Education

Proletarian Performance in Weimar Berlin
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
New study of the revolutionary theatre of the Weimar republic, examining its interplay with socialist and communist politics.

The Promptorum Parvulorum (paperback edition)
Series: Early English Text Society Extra Series

The Proms and Natural Justice

Propaganda and Zionist Education
A history of the Jewish National Fund and the ways it encouraged Jews around the world to buy land in Palestine in the years 1924-1947.

Property Rights and Political Development (paperback edition)
Series: Eastern African Studies
This study traces three different land tenure systems in Ethiopia and Eritrea over a 30-year period from the end of Italian occupation to the end of imperial rule. It examines existing theories of changing property rights in the context of the developing world, and should interest NGOs.

Prophecy and Eschatology
Series: Studies in Church History: Subsidia

Prophecy and Public Affairs in Later Medieval England
The nature of political prophecy in the middle ages analysed, confirming its importance in the discussion of public affairs.

Prophecy, Politics and the People in Early Modern England
A study of prophetic traditions in early modern England, their influence and popularity.

Prophets Abroad
Essays on the influence of continental holy women on their English counterparts.

Prose Life of Alexander
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

The Prose Works of Sir Gilbert Hay
Series: Scottish Text Society Fifth Series

The Prose Works of Sir Gilbert Hay
Series: Scottish Text Society Fourth Series

Prosimetrum Narrative Prose & Verse - Out of print

Protecting the Pub
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History
Reacting to attacks by temperance reformers in late Victorian England, brewers and publicans formed `the trade', a pressure group with a formidable reputation, though it surmounted internal discord only briefly to defeat the threat of probibition in the 1890s.

Protection and Politics
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
Examination of debate within the Conservative party over the principles of free trade.

Protest Song in East and West Germany since the 1960s
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
The German protest song from the 1960s through the 1990s and how it carried forth traditions of earlier periods.

Protestant Evangelicalism: Britain, Ireland, Germany and America, c.1750-c.1950
Series: Studies in Church History: Subsidia

Protesting about Pauperism
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
A fresh look at the complex question of outdoor poor relief in the nineteenth century.

The Prymer or Lay-Folks' Prayer Book Vol 1 [EETS OS 105, 109]
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

The Prymer or Lay-Folks Prayer Book Vol. I
Series: Early English Text Society Original Series

The Psalter and Martyrology of Ricemarch
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society

The Psalter Collects
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society

Public Health and the Risk Factor
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
A look at how the concept of "risk factor" has influenced public health and preventive medicine, with an emphasis upon the study of heart disease.

Public Health and the Risk Factor (paperback edition)
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
A look at how the concept of "risk factor" has influenced public health and preventive medicine, with an emphasis upon the study of heart disease.

Public Order and Law Enforcement (paperback edition)

Public and Private Universities in Kenya (paperback edition)
Series: Higher Education in Africa
Reviews the history of higher education in Kenya and details the emergence of private universities, most of them with a Christian religious orientation, as major players in the provision of tertiary-level education.

Publishing and Medicine in Early Modern England
An investigation of the role which the English book trade played in an important transitional period in early modern medicine.

Puritan Iconoclasm during the English Civil War
Series: Studies in Modern British Religious History
An examination of Puritan iconoclasm, the reasons which led to it, and the forces which sustained it.

The Pursuit of High Culture
Series: Music in Britain, 1600-1900
This monograph investigates the promotion and consumption of high musical culture among leisured society in Victorian London, by focusing on the activities of the concert manager John Ella and his Musical Union.